Whatzit cone

[Jeff]

Can you Identify the species?

[SwampDonkey]

Yup  ;D

[Jeff]

I figured you could.  ;D

[sprucebunny]

An alder ?

[Jeff]

Thats pretty generic there alderbunny, but technically correct. ;)

Another view from farther back.

[Tom]

Yep! That is what it is.  Alderuvem  Sprucpineickerry 8)

[SwampDonkey]

Jeff, many alder leaf beetles or willow leaf beetles over your way? They're metalic green on alder and the grubs are bluish as I recall. They sure give them alders a hammering.

[Texas Ranger]

Kinda unique, a cone bearing broadleaf, always learning.

[Tom]

I looked it up and it's called a catkin, Don.   What do we have down here that produces catkins?

[SwampDonkey]

Here's another catkin producing broadleaf. I don't think it gets as far south as Fl or Tx though. Although, it's not too far to your north. ;)

[sprucebunny]

Yep! That is what it is.  Alderuvem  Sprucpineickerry 8)

So exactly what kind is it , Jeff ???

I think all we have around here is speckled alder. I heard that deer like to hide in clumps of them.

[SwampDonkey]

Jeff was lucky he never got consumed by the spotted-touch-me-not, climatus, or wild cuke vines when he was crawling around in that alder patch. ;D

[Phorester]

Tom, I believe catkins are produced by cats, dogkins would be produced by dogs, etc.  All God's little chillen got kins.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Tom]

 :D :D :D :D

Another free mind!   :D

[SwampDonkey]

The tree from which that branch came from in my post have caused a few loggers to curse when cutting them manually. You get a shower of millions of the seeds and bracts down your kneck when it falls away from the stump in the fall (season). ;D